Bag.



I 4H. GARST.

BAG.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4, 1916.

Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

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C24/VVD 1N VENTOR HORACE GARST ATTORNEY.

H. GARST.

BAG.

APPLICATION FILED 1AN.4, |916.

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HORACE GARST, 0F DENVER, COLORADO.

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' Specification of Letters Patent; l Patented Oct. 3, 1916.

. Application led January 4, 1916. Serial No. 70,149.

To aZ-Z whom t may concern Be "it known that I, HORACE GARsT, a citizenof the United States, residing at Denver, in the county of Denver andState of Colorado, have-invented certain new and.

useful Improvements in Bags, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements inybags-its primary object being to provide a bag of novel construction and.attractive appearance which retains its shape when opened `or closed,

which when not in use may be reduced in size for the purpose' of storingor packing it in a small space, and which being composed of few partsmay be. economically produced.

With the above objects-in view, my improved bag consists of a bottommember reinforced by suitable stiffening material, a

collapsible circumferential wall member of sufficient rigidity to standupright under normal conditions, and a top member provided with a mouthaording access to the interior of the bag and with adjustable means forretaining said mouth in either the open or closed condition. The threemembers are fastened together bv 'sewing and may be made of cloth or anyother suitable flexible material.

A slit formed in the top member of the bag provides the mouth whichaffords access to its interior and sets of normallyalined sticksconcealed in pockets at opposite sides of said slit, constitute theadjustable means by which the mouth is held in its open and closedconditions. 4 y

When the bag is open the sticks are relatively disposed to form aquadrangle which affords ready access to the interior of the bag.

Strings are applied at the points of juncture of the sticks of the twosets to secure the mouth of the bag in its closed condition, and handlesfastened to the top-member at opposite sides of the mouth provide readytravelers, shoppers or hunters as well as for the storage of toiletrequisites and other small. articles on desks 'and dressing tables.

In the accompanying drawings inthe various views of. which like partsare similarly designated, Figure lis a plan view of my improved bag inits closed condition, Fig. 2 a similar view of the bag withl itsmouth inthe ,open position, Fig. 3, a section taken along the line 3-3, Fig. 1,drawn to -an yenlarged scale, Fig. 4,a correspondingly enlargedtransverse section taken. along the;

line 4 4, Fig. l, Fig. 5, a fragmentary sectional view of the bottomportionof the bag showinga modified method of applying the reinforcementthereto, Fig. 6, -a development of the single piece of material of whichj the top-member of the bag is composed, Fig. 7, a view ofthe pieceshown in Fig. 6, after it has been initially folded in the process offorming the top-member, and Fig. 8, a perspective view of the top-memberfolded in a condition ready for its connection with the other members ofthe bag.

Referring to the drawings by numerical j reference characters,- 2designates the bottom member, 3 the 1circumferential-wall-member, and 4the top-member of the bag.

The bottom-member in its preferred form,

' is composed of two flexible 'sheets 23 sewed together around -anlinterposed piece 24 of reinforcing material, such as broid, the

contour of which determines'the shape of the finished article.

The. sheets between which. the reinforcing piece is secured, areextended .beyond the .edge thereof to provide a ange 5 forfastenin'githe bottom-member to the lower edge of the side orwall-member of the bag. This last-mentioned member is made of twocontinuous vflexible strips 6 stitched together as at 7 and sewed alongthe lower edges to the up-turned flange of the bottom member as shown inFigs. 3 and 4 of the drawings. l

The two strips of which the wall-member is composed, render itsufficiently rigid to extend normally in an upright position, while atthe same time it is flexible to the extent that it may collapse whensubjected toPressure.

The top-member of the bag is made of a single sheet of cloth or otherHexible material the ends of which are connected and which issubsequently doubled to provide pockets or the sticks which bind themouth of the The material before being folded or connected is as shownin Fig. 6, cut in the form` bag and which has a slit l2 bounded byupturned flanges 13. The flanges 13 are stitched as at 14 to 'formpockets for the reception of four sticks 15 ofV substantially equallength which define the mouth of the bag as hereinbefore explained.

The folded parts f the top-member are furthermore connected by rows ofstitching 16 and the member is sewed at its outer edge along the upperedge of the wallmember as shown at 17. To conceal the stitches whichconnect the top and bottom members of the'bag with thewall-member, theedges of the latter are turned inwardly as shown in Figs. 3 and 4 of thedrawings.

The sticks 15 placed in the pockets produced by the stitchings 14, arenormally alined in pairs in the upturned flanges at opposite sides ofthe slit which constitute the mouth of the receptacle, as shown in Atthe points of juncture of the alined sticks, cords 18 are attached tothe flanges of the top-member for tying the mouth in its closedcondition, and handles 19 made of doubled strips of cloth are sewed tothe top at points adjacent those at which the fastening cords areapplied.

ln bags. of larger dimensions, the reinforcement of the bottom-membermay be made separate from and placed removably within the bag as shownat 2O in' Fig. 5. By removing this reinforcement, a ba thus constructedmay be collapsed and when not in use, and to still further reduce thecompass of the collapsed article the reinforcement may be made insections as shown in the drawin From the above description, takentogether with the drawings, the operation of olded l my improved bagwill be readily understood without further explanation at this point, itbeing observed that by vpressing the top and bottom members of the bagtogether, its normallyrigid wall may be collapsed to reduce the size ofthe article when not in use.

Having thus described my invention,

what I claim and desire to secure by* Letters-Patent is:

1. A bag comprising a' bottom-member, a top-member having a mouthprovided by a reinforced slit, and a wall-member connecting the topandbottom-members, the said wall-member being composed of a plurality ofstrips of flexible material stitched together, whereby it is normallyrigid and adapted to collapse when the top and bottom members arepressed together.

2. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouthprovided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at oppo` site sidesof said mouth, and a wall-member connecting the .topand bottom-members,the said top-member being composed of a single piece of flexiblematerial cut and folded to the required shape.

3. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having 'a mouthprovided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at op; posite sidesof said mouth, and a wallmember connecting the topand bottommembers, thesaid top-member being composed of a single piece of flexible materialout and folded to the required shape and stitched to provide pockets forthe said sticks.

4. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouthprovided by a slit, sets of normally alined sticks at opposite sides ofsaid mouth, and a wallmember connecting the topand bottommembers, thelsaid top-member being com posed of a single piece of flexible materialformed of two sections of the general shape of the finished bag, whichare connected at their opposite ends and folded to provide a pair ofupturned Hanges defining said slit and which are stitched to provide atthe edges of said flanges, pockets for the said sticks. v

5. A bag comprising an annular wallmember turned inwardly at its edges,a topmember having a mouth provided by a reinforced slit, and abottom-member, the said topand bottom-members being attached to saidinturned edges of the wall-member.

6. A bag comprising a bottom-member, a top-member having a mouthprovided by a slit, two sets of. normally lalined sticks at oppositesides of said mouth, handles alined upon the upper surface of saidtop-member at opposite sides of said mouth and each composed of a stripof cloth bent upon itself to provide a loop adjacent the mouth', and aWall-member connecting said topand bottom-members.

7. A bagffcomprisng a bottom-member composed of a sheet of flexiblematerial, a top-member having a mouth aordng access to the interior ofthe bag, and a Wallmember connecting said topand bottommembers, and a'reinforcement loosely sup- 10 ported upon the upper surface of thebottom-member and adapted to be removed from the bag through the mouthof its topmember.

In testimony whereof I have aIiXed my signature in presence of twoWitnesses.

HORACE GARsT.

